finish off, willjess if'iz'i gaff vii ii—m iiiifi” to finish off, willjess phillips have the support of momentum, because that matters at this stage. jess phillips is an mp in the birmingham area, very funny, outspoken and popular but also not hugely experienced yet, so does she become labour leader?” hugely experienced yet, so does she become labour leader? i have this feeling that keir starmer may have got it in the bag. he is already exuding a certain authority. he could be someone that could take on borisjohnson at pmqs. could be someone that could take on boris johnson at pmqs. but momentum? momentum is supporting rebecca long bailey battery is seen as the corbyn continuity candidate and is that what the membership wants? it's not about the public, it's about —— it's not about the membership, it's about the public. we have to wait until february the fourth. thank you very much. that's it for the papers tonight.

don't forget you can see the front pages of the papers online on the bbc news website. it's all there for you seven days a week at bbc.co.uk/papers, and if you miss the programme any evening, you can watch it later on bbc iplayer. a big thank you to my guests this evening, lynn faulds wood and anne ashworth. that's all from us tonight. next on bbc news, it's the film review. hello and a very warm welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases, mark kermode is back. i can say happy new year. happy new year! we are in award season, so we have a very good selection of movies because it's all the sort of big contenders. so, coming up this week, we have uncut gems, which a new film by the safdie brothers,

starring adam sandler. we have 1917, a war movie directed by sam mendes, constructed in one shot. and seberg, the biopic starring kristin stewart. yeah, quite a variety! there's lots around, as you say. yeah, so let's begin with uncut gems. so, adam sandler is a kind of difficult character to talk about as an actor because i have not liked a lot of his comedies. i love that you are already smiling! but he made a movie called punch—drunk love with paul thomas anderson which i absolutely loved, and i always thought "that's it. if you can make a film like that brilliant, it means you know the difference between a brilliant film and a not—great film." this is him back on form, working with the safdie brothers, who made good time with robert pattinson, heaven knows what before that. it is the most anxiety—inducing drama i've seen recently. he stars as a new york diamond district sort of bling jeweller whose life is unravelling in spectacularfashion. he's in debt. he thinks he can get out of it

by selling the uncut gem — the black opal that he has smuggled into the us. but time is running out on his business, his personal life and his marriage. here's a clip. i'm begging you, just... ..just give me another shot. you know what, howard? say yes. what? i think you are the most annoying person i have ever met. i hate being with you, i hate looking at you and if i had my way, i would never see you again. that's 'cause you're mad. you're mad, and it makes sense. you can punch me if you want. 0h, thanks. hey, i was ready for it. commotion. i don't even want to touch you. 0h! that's going well, then! the genius of it is that all those things that she says, you know, "you are the most annoying

person i have ever met" — that is actually at the centre of the film and yet, you are completely riveted by this character as his life unspools in spectacularfashion. the thing that the safdie brothers do is manage to make a movie that actually has the same kind of dramatic format as abel ferrara's, film bad lieutenant, which is set over a fixed period of time in which everything goes wrong sort of sequentially. you stay with adam sandler‘s character all the way through it as he makes bad decision after bad decision. he is addicted to gambling, he is a liar, he is a cheat, but he believes that there is a way out of this situation — it's always just one step ahead of him. i thought he was absolutely terrific and it reminded me of how much i sat there watching punch—drunk love thinking, "i cannot believe this is the man who has made so many comedies that i've never found funny" because the genius of this is is that what it is it taps into the fact that there is something about adam sandler that is deeply unsettling. there is something about him that is kind of, you know, worrying and anxiety—ridden, and this really, really captures that. i think the safdie brothers are really extraordinary film—makers. their film—making is experiential.

at the end of this movie, you will have to lie down. you know, it kind of felt like a claustrophobic panic attack — and i say that in a good way. in a good way! but it's absolutely not for everyone. it's not the kind of thing where you say "it's friday night. let's go and relax. let's go watch uncut gems." because you will come out of this like, you know, you're digging your nails into the palms of your hand. but i think that it should be nominated in all the awards. i think he should be up for best actor. it is a really terrific cinematic experience. wow. but it is, as i said, it is like having a panic attack for two hours. i am slightly stressed just listening to that! i am really sorry. that's. .. so, 1917. i'm going to see that this weekend. yes. so, am i infora treat? you are. i mean, again, experiential cinema. so sam mendes, world war one picture. the story is very, very simple. at the beginning, the two lance corporals are told that what they have to do is to take a message across enemy lines to a distant troop to say there's an attack that is going to happen

and you need to call off the attack. that is basically the plot. the camera then follows them in what appears to be real—time, because it appears to play out in a single shot. it doesn't — it's actually a number of shots, you know, sequentially put together, but it gives you the impression that you're just watching the action unfold absolutely before you without edit. it is brilliantly constructed and choreographed, fantastically shot by roger deakins. it has at its heart a central performance by george mackay, who i have talked about on this show before. i said he is a real — i think he is a real talent and he is perfectly cast at the centre of this movie because his face has this mixture of innocence but also world—weariness. we really get a sense through watching him that he is somebody who has been made old before his time. as a theatrical experience, there are three moments, at least, in which ijumped almost out of my chair. and yet, the real — i think the real strength of the film is it makes you care about the characters. obviously what you're seeing here is edited footage, but bear in mind when you see the film in the cinema, those edits are not in there — the camera appears to be following them as they go on this mission against all the odds, and we discover the landscape as they discover it. yes!

it is very, very immersive, terrific soundtrack, and i think you'll — i think you'll find it — i mean, enjoyable is not quite the right word... sure. but it's huge... ..but i think you'll find it very, very powerful. yeah, absorbing and, yeah, definitely one to see. seberg. yes. so, kristen stewart — huge fan of kristin stewart. both her and robert pattinson, who starred together in the twilight movies. remember all that, years ago, when critics were sniffy about those movies? well, look how wrong they turned out to be. so here, she plastean seberg, who's a famous actress, was in nouvelle vague a bout de souffle, and then came back to hollywood and became investigated by and spied upon by the fbi in a covert operation to discredit her because of her affiliation, because of her support for the black panthers and her affiliation with hakim jamal. and in the clip we see here, together — it's two of them together reading a script she has been given which is both referring to the script and to stuff which is happening in their personal life. here's a clip.

you don't know me, mr rumson. but there's not a woman on this earth who will make you a better wife. you ought to. i paid enough for you. i may be paid for, but i'm not your property. you grab me unwanted like that again and i'll shoot you down like a dog. where'd you get that? a woman has her secrets. now put that down or neither of us will have much of a wedding night. two great performances. actually, there's another great performance in the film by jack o'connell who plays the fbi agent who is sent in to basically spy on and discredit her, who starts to wrestle with his own conscience. the film is interesting.

the director has a background in theatre and i think it occasionally seems a little bit theatrical, a little bit stagey, but it is a really, really interesting story about this horrible counter—surveillance operation, you know, spying on somebody, lying about them, trying to discredit them because of their political beliefs. and at the centre of it is a very, very edgy, nervy, kind of electrifying performance by kristin stewart, who captures that quality that makes, you know — firstly, why it was that this person became a star, but also captures the vulnerability that they experience as they become paranoid about everyone's watching them, everyone's spying on them — and the truth is, they are. so although i think the film itself is slightly flawed, i think the performances are really good and i think the story itself still bears retelling — and as i said, once again, great to see kristin stewart taking on a role that is challenging and difficult and different to — you know, it's almost as like both her and pattinson have gone out of their way to pursue projects that are admirable and artistically based, and good for them! yes. and best out this week... 0h! ..you have selected this week little women. yeah, it came out on boxing day

and i just love it. have you seen it yet? yes. did you like it? i did not love it as much as i thought i was going to. 0h,jane! what did you not like? sorry. i thought it got better, but i thought the first hour could do with some subbing and it was slow and dark and then, suddenly it sort of burst into light. 0k. i'm taken aback... i'm afraid. i love saoirse ronan. i thought she was terrific. she's great. you didn't think — because greta gerwig, who wrote and directed it, who i thought did a brilliantjob — i thought she would've been nominated recently as best director for it. i — did you not get it — i felt sucked into the world, i believed in the house and the environment and the landscape and the characters and the way in which she has reordered the time frame of the source so that we start further on and we come back. yes... i don't know. oh, dear! no, no, it's... i feel i'm letting the side down. no, no — not... i didn't dislike it. 0k. i felt — it's two and a quarter hours. i felt it would have benefited from being two, for example. i could have had it three. i could have had four.

i could've had a miniseries. i just loved it. i loved it. but there we go — diversity of opinion is a wonderful thing! thejoy of film. yes! 0k. i didn't love it, i didn't hate it. no, 0k. but they're not putting that on the poster. no. dvd. dvd, what's out? yes. just very briefly, the by the grace of god, which is a true—life drama directed by francois ozon about a real—life case of a group of men who got together to take action against a priest who had molested them in younger life. what's interesting about it is because the subject matter is so factually based, it is almost as if ozon, who is a kind of, you know, famous auteur, he has put aside any style and has just made the film as straightforwardly and as simply and as, you know, a matter of factly as possible because the story itself is very strong, very powerful, very controversial and it's almost like the film—maker's saying "i do not need to embellish this at all. this is how it plays out." and i thought actually, it was a very smart move because i thought it — the matter—of—fact quality made it all the more powerful. mmm. all right. mark, thank you very much. you have to see little women again! you have to see it again! i'm very busy watching sam mendes' latest this weekend. thank you very much, mark. see you next time and enjoy your

cinema—going, whatever you choose to go and see. bye— bye! hello. well, it is all good stuff, isn't it? not so good stuff was this. this is how it was for many across the northern half of britain during the daylight hours. it really was fairly miserable fair. not only was fairly miserable fair. not only was it really quite wet, but it was also very windy. very tricky driving conditions. travel was affected, and we are not quite done yet. this hole whether feature is moving we are not quite done yet. this hole whetherfeature is moving ever further towards the south has be closeouts saturday. ahead of it, the gusts of wind are more potent, 50—60 mph has been standard fare. behind it you will notice after a while we're getting into something a little bit cooler. that is the way you ended the day across northern ireland and the north and west of scotla nd ireland and the north and west of scotland as the rain slumped its way down into england and wales. it will

its journey into the rest of the small hours of sunday morning. following on behind, the skies are a bit clearer. the temperatures will dribble away and we will get a conversion of some of these showers from rain into snow above about 300m oi’ from rain into snow above about 300m or $0 from rain into snow above about 300m orso in from rain into snow above about 300m or so in scotland. there will be a peppering of showers getting into the northern england eventually on into northern ireland, where the temperatures will dip away. could be a touch of frost in the north—eastern quarter of scotland. further south, you still have the re m na nts of further south, you still have the remnants of saturday's relatively mild weather. but it means a fairly cloudy start foremost in england and wales. there will be the odd patch of brightness early on and from about lunchtime onwards, here we go. cloud and rain is all gone. one or two showers left behind, still wintry across the high ground of northern and western scotland, but a gloriously sunny day for the most part. for many of you it will feel fresher, but the wind will not be as strong as was the case today. across the north—west of scotland, the isobars are more tightly packed. sunday night into monday, fairly cool sunday night into monday, fairly cool. the skies were clear and the

isobars will start to squeeze up, especially across western and northern parts of the british isles. this is all coming in ahead of storm brendan. this was named by the irish whether authorities, and it will be the major player on monday. even if you don't see the rain, and many of you don't see the rain, and many of you will, and there will be plenty of it, what you will see is the strength of the wind. and again this could well be disruptive. the met office already have a yellow warning, 50, 60, 70, some spots around the north and west of scotla nd around the north and west of scotland could be looking at 80 mph. so tricky driving conditions, the ferries will have problems, some flights may be interrupted and temperatures may also have restrictions. so notjust monday but into next week, stormy, heavy rain and some travel disruption as well.

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